* AnimationAgeGhetto: Zig-zagged. While they haven't shown animation on a ''regular'' basis since the cancellation of the TurnOfTheMillennium weekly series ''Cartoon Alley'' (which featured shorts from TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, mostly MGM and Warner Bros. output) and the choice around the same time to stop using old MGM shorts as interstitial content, the network isn't afraid to occasionally give the medium the kind of attention and respect it lavishes on live-action films -- focusing on underexposed/underappreciated works to boot. (Also, with regard to animated features, bear in mind that the pool TCM has to draw from is rather small, as Disney -- which until TheSeventies was the only studio consistently making them -- keeps its films on its own channels.) Examples:** The January 2006 retrospective of the work of Creator/HayaoMiyazaki and Creator/StudioGhibli, which featured both the English-dubbed and subtitled versions of most of their films, plus the subtitled ''Only Yesterday'' (which has never had a North American home media release). ** They ''almost'' aired ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyThieves'', but a schedule mix-up ended up keeping it off-air by accident, instead running fifteen minutes of ads.** On October 21, 2012, they ran a night of animated features and shorts, showing ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels'' and ''Film/MrBugGoesToTown'' (using the UCLA restorations of both), an hour of UPA shorts (they also backed a DVD compilation of such that year), an hour of silent shorts and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPrinceAchmed'', a film that turns up in the schedule at least once a year in TheNewTens.** On March 24, 2011, TCM aired a night-long tribute to Creator/ChuckJones, showing the new documentary ''Memories of Childhood'', ten of Jones' best cartoons (including "WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck" and "WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc") and ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' (another one that turns up about once a year). ** May 2011 showed ''[[WesternAnimation/{{HeavyMetal}} Heavy Metal]]'' in late night, of all things.** In 2013, they played Creator/ChuckJones' ''WesternAnimation/GayPurree''.** October 2014 had a "Back to the Drawing Board" animation marathon, highlighting some of the most important animated cartoons from TheSilentAgeOfAnimation, including the works of WinsorMcCay and the [[BrayStudios J.R. Bray Studio]], and even the work of obscure studios like [[Creator/VanBeurenStudios Van Beuren.]] (Though like the Popeye incident above, the Van Beuren shorts were accidentally replaced with a repeat of the Winsor [=McCay=] program; the Van Beuren block was rescheduled and aired on December 7th.)** Occasionally in the off hours (late, late night or morning) they've aired ''Magic Boy'' -- MGM's English dub of the 1959 anime feature ''Shonen Sarutobi Sasuke'' -- in widescreen, starting years before it received a home media release (through Warner Archive) in North America. ** As of the December 2014 launch of the program ''Treasures from the Disney Vault'', which will feature WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts and more obscure titles from the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon -- i.e. ''Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' -- it looks like they're ready to bust out of the ghetto...** In February 2015, TCM Underground aired ''WesternAnimation/TwiceUponATime''.* CultClassic: TCM Underground, which has been airing late Saturday nights/early Sunday mornings since 2004 (though it, like other blocks, takes a break in February for the 31 Days of Oscar marathon to run), is a programming block that focuses on movies of this stripe. {{Exploitation Film}}s, {{Blaxploitation}} films, all kinds of horror films, {{Unintentional Period Piece}}s, SoBadItsGood movies, and just plain quirky movies all have a place here. Even the interstitial programming in the block consists of vintage shorts that would make the Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} gang smile. '''Very''' likely to run films that otherwise fall under KeepCirculatingTheTapes.* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Did this for Ted Turner, who was previously reviled by cinephiles for his enthusiastic support for colorizing old black & white films.----